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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Back surfing in the YouTube
Last week provided me with a bit of a surprise when I idly counted the number of past columns stored on my computer. My first year or two’s columns were lost when we changed computer systems at Independent Newspapers but … Continue reading
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Durban Diaries Blog
Here’s a great Durban-related blog done by TV cameraman Clive Read. He uses it to document some of the things that he sees on his travels about the city. Durban Diaries
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Electricity hikes
A snippet from the council mouthpiece Ezasegagasini Metro from June 27, 2008. ***The price of electricity in the city is most likely to go up by 29.5% next week. My opinion: This is in response to price hikes from electricity … Continue reading
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Council snippets
Snippets from the council mouthpiece Ezasegagasini Metro from June 27, 2008. ***The price of electricity in the city is most likely to go up by 29.5% next. This is in response to price hikes from the beleaguered electricity supplier Eskom. … Continue reading
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Speaking out on name changes
I very much fear that President Thabo Mbeki might have put the final kibosh on any hopes that some or all of the street re-naming might be avoided. As reported in the Mercury of June 27, 2008, he called for … Continue reading
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Shipbuilding
By coincidence, I have received a picture of one of the tugs, referred to in the previous post, being built at SAS in Bayhead. I must do a longer article on the the state of the industry sometime. Picture used … Continue reading
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Water canons and shipbuilding
There was not much in today’s Sunday Tribune (22 June 2008) on yesterday’s story, except a brief mention that a protest had taken place. There was also a Reuters picture of a water canon being used on protesters. In a … Continue reading
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Who let the fox out? Woof! Woof!
The big news on the web browser front at the moment is the launch by the Mozilla Foundation of a new version of their excellent Firefox browser for Windows, Mac and Unix computers. Browsers are an important tool that many … Continue reading
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Rubber bullets fired
The News 24 website has reported on a clash between demonstrators and police in Durban today. The police apparently fired rubber bullets to disperse a crowd who were allegedly Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters protesting against the decision to rename … Continue reading
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Just doodlin’ around
Arranging a meeting with only a few participants is hard enough but it starts becoming very difficult as the numbers increase. I’m not a corporate or bureaucratic type, thankfully, but I have often been involved when it comes to setting … Continue reading
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